{"id":1337,"date":"2008-02-03T20:41:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2008-02-04T01:53:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:53:24","slug":"georgias-us-senators-endorse-mccain-anti-illegal-immigration-activists-have-had-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/georgias-us-senators-endorse-mccain-anti-illegal-immigration-activists-have-had-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia’s U.S. Senators Endorse McCain – anti-illegal immigration activists and many Georgians have had enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia’s U.S. Senators Endorse McCain<\/strong>
\nChannel 46 CBS Atlanta, Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

ATLANTA — Georgia’s two U.S. senators endorsed John McCain on Saturday night, a move designed to give the Republican presidential hopeful a boost with conservatives in the South.<\/p>\n

Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson appeared with McCain at a Cobb County rally just days before Super Tuesday, when Georgia and 21 other states will vote.<\/p>\n

The pair called McCain the best candidate to keep the country secure in wartime.<\/p>\n

The endorsement created immediate ripples among Georgia’s grassroots conservatives, where McCain is viewed with some skepticism.<\/p>\n

Chambliss, who is up for re-election this year, made a point of noting that he has policy differences with the Arizona senator, the author of a failed immigration measure which critics likened to amnesty.<\/p>\n

“The willingness to disagree is what good leadership is about,” Chambliss said.<\/p>\n

“John McCain is a strong-willed man, but he listens.”<\/p>\n

Chambliss was greeted with boos from some of the GOP faithful at a state party meeting last year when he said he supported the McCain-backed immigration bill. He went on to withdraw his support for the measure.<\/p>\n

Some conservatives who oppose illegal immigration were quick to condemn the endorsement Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I can never, ever vote for Saxby Chambliss again,” D.A. King, head of the Dustin Inman Society, said Saturday night.<\/p>\n

King called McCain “the architect of two attempts to provide amnesty to illegal aliens.”<\/p>\n

Chambliss defended the endorsement, saying McCain was a candidate the GOP could unite behind.<\/p>\n

Isakson also praised his fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n

“John McCain was a fiscal hawk before it became popular,” Isakson said.<\/p>\n

McCain visited Georgia as part of swing through the South Saturday. He is facing Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul in Tuesday’s contests.<\/p>\n

McCain called Isakson and Chambliss “men of tremendous character.”<\/p>\n

“I am honored to have their support,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Georgia’s U.S. Senators Endorse McCain Channel 46 CBS Atlanta, Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia’s two U.S. senators endorsed John McCain on Saturday night, a move designed to give the Republican presidential hopeful a boost with conservatives in the South. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson appeared with McCain at a Cobb County rally just days before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}